Monday, September 6

Watermelon Radish and Armenian Cucumber Salad Is Good Enough to Fight Over

What's this I see? Kids fighting over vegetables? Yes, it's true.

This past Saturday at the Little Italy Mercato in San Diego, two little boys were tussling over cucumbers. Well, not just any cucumbers, Armenian cucumbers, otherwise known as "snake cucumbers" and "snake melons."

"I wanted that one!" said the freckled blonde, stomping his right foot on the ground.

"Well, it's mine!" said the dark-haired one, fiercely, as he handed a curly, striped cucumber as tall as he was to his mother and asked: "Can I have this?"

I sighed. Ahhh! There is nothing so touching as seeing children fight over fresh farmers' market vegetables.

If you've seen an Armenian cucumber, then you understand why they're so alluring. Though a variety of melon, an Armenian cucumber looks and tastes like a regular cucumber, but can grown up to three feet long!

The colours in your sald look lovely. We call the Armenian cucumber "kheera" in India.A great thirst quencher, it is sold in summer on little carts at almost every street corner. Yummy when eaten raw, dipped in a mixture of salt and chilli powder.

I've had both of these items in my Suzie's Farm CSA share! And the only thing cuter than kids fighting over farmer's market veggies was when I took their farm tour and two little boys were very sad because the carrots weren't big enough to harvest yet.

The watermelon radishes have a nice zing to them and make any dish look spectacular!

Can we please introduce these kids to my kids? They'd think that these vegetables looked good, but it'd be hard to get them to eat them. They might try...but that's about it! Haha. This sounds and looks gorgeous to me though!